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The Philadelphia Eagles’ upcoming game against the Dallas Cowboys has a New Jersey elementary school letting its students t-off on posters in the hallway.
FOX 29 Philadelphia aired footage of students at Cooper’s Point Family School in Camden, New Jersey, using punching bags with posters of Cowboys players taped to them. The footage went viral on social media.
The stunt has received mixed reactions.
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The Dallas Cowboys enter the game with a 4-5-1 record. The Eagles lead the NFC at 8-2 and look to win their second straight Super Bowl and third since 2017. The upcoming game takes place in Dallas after the Eagles won the last meeting between the two teams in Philadelphia on Thursday night’s NFL season opener.
Eagles fans have earned a controversial reputation for abrasive behavior over the years.
After the Eagles’ Super Bowl victory last February, footage captured by FreedomNewsTV reportedly showed a crowd looting a laundry cart and throwing towels into the air. Police were seen responding to a fire when a pile of laundry was set on fire.
In another clip, two people could be seen knocking over a light pole. When it hit the ground, a crowd rushed around it and began to smash it with their feet. Then members of the crowd picked up the pole and began to carry it through the center of town.
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In January, Eagles fans came under a national microscope after one of their own, Ryan Caldwellwas seen verbally assaulting a female Green Bay Packers fan in viral footage at the team’s wild card playoff game.
Former Dallas Cowboys player DeMarcus Ware, who played a game in Philadelphia every year during his Dallas career from 2005 to 2013, told Pakinomist Digital that he once witnessed Eagles fans throw projectiles at his mother, Brenda Ann Ware, during a game his rookie year in 2005.
“My rookie season, when my mom was in the stands, I told her not to wear my jersey, and she was in the front row, and was up there in Philly, they put batteries in snowballs and threw them, and one of them hit my mom,” Ware said.
Watching his mother get caught in a snow-covered battery almost made Ware abandon his football duties and run into the stands to start a game.
“I turned around at that point and I didn’t care about football anymore. I wanted to pick up the guy that was in the stands. But I didn’t,” Ware said.
In 2018, an Eagles fan was arrested during the NFC divisional playoff game against the Falcons for punching the horse of a Philadelphia police officer.
According to a police report at the time, one man was ejected because “he was intoxicated and did not have a ticket.” After he was ejected from Lincoln Stadium, the man walked toward a police officer who was mounted on a horse and “began hitting the horse in the face, neck and shoulder area.”
After the Eagles won the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots that year, several violent riots broke out around the city. Looting and destruction was reported at several convenience stores and a local Macy’s department store. Cars were overturned, traffic lights and lampposts were torn down.
One of the most famous examples of unruly Eagles fan behavior occurred way back in 1968, when a man dressed as Santa took the field. He was booed by fans upset about a disappointing season and, like Ware’s mother, he was even hit with snowballs.
In 1997, during a Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers, a mischievous Eagles fan fired a flare gun into the stands filled with other fans, endangering several lives.
After the flare was shot, several fistfights broke out around the stadium, with most of the violence directed at 49ers fans by Eagles fans.
“There was a large number of fights and intimidation, many directed at fans wearing 49ers jerseys,” the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote at the time.
After the game, Eagles owner Jeffrie Lurie was forced to denounce his own fans.
“Despite the fact that we feel we’ve made significant progress in recent years in terms of fan behavior at Veterans Stadium, what we saw last Monday was undoubtedly a step backwards,” Lurie told reporters at the time.
